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We had an amazing, record snowfall season here in California, which we are still enjoying on this first day in July as Alpine and Mammoth continue to operate.

But don't let that confuse you about climate change. Extreme winters are exactly what you would expect with a warming planet, I'll explain.
11:47 AM - Jul 01, 2023
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This past winter was marked by massive amounts of snowfall in California. How do you think all that moisture got in the air? Heat. Only heat can put that moisture into the atmosphere.

In California, we call these phenomena "Atmospheric Rivers" or the "Pineapple Express". These are common.
11:49 AM - Jul 01, 2023
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What's not common is just how many Atmospheric Rivers we got, but just how intense they were. We got more of them, and each one had extreme amounts of moisture.

These are all things that are consistent with a warming planet.
11:50 AM - Jul 01, 2023
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In a warming world, we can expect more extremes of everything, heat, drought and yes, even snowfall.
11:51 AM - Jul 01, 2023
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Don't forget that the lack of snowfall, like what we had last year, is another form of extreme. A future extreme may involve high elevation rain happening more frequently. We did get some of that too this season, I remember trying to snowboard in it, and it was pretty lame.
11:53 AM - Jul 01, 2023
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